Publications

Erica von Essen, Martin Drenthen, Manisha Bhardwaj. 2023. How fences communicate interspecies codes of conduct in the landscape: toward bidirectional communication?. Wildlife Biology. https://doi.org/10.1002/wlb3.01146

The fence provides two functions in wildlife management. First, it physically blocks, deters or impedes wild animals from access to protected areas or resources. Second, the fence signals impassability, danger, pain or irritation to animals through both of these pathways: the actual blockade and the signal of no access both communicates to wild animals that they should stay away, producing area effects which constrain animal m...

Erica von Essen. 2023. The Virtual Animal in the Digital Anthropocene. The Routledge International Handbook of More-than-Human Studies. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003262619-16

A desire to know the secret lives of wild animals has innovated surveillance technologies in the twenty-first century. From drones, remote-controlled spy cameras, go-pros and sensors to trail cams, humans can now keep an eye on the wild and enrol wildlife into the Internet of Things. In this chapter, I examine the capacities of surveillance technology to empower, subjugate, individualise, massify, emancipate or control wild an...

Jonathon Turnbull, Adam Searle, Oscar Hartman Davies, Jennifer Dodsworth, Pauline Chasseray-Peraldi, Erica von Essen, Henry Anderson-Elliott. 2023. Digital ecologies: Materialities, encounters, governance. Progress in Environmental Geography. https://doi.org/10.1177/27539687221145698

Digital technologies increasingly mediate relations between humans and nonhumans in a range of contexts including environmental governance, surveillance, and entertainment. Combining approaches from more-than-human and digital geographies, we proffer ‘digital ecologies’ as an analytical framework for examining digitally-mediated human–nonhuman entanglement. We identify entanglement as a compelling basis from which to articulat...

Erica von Essen, Jonathon Turnbull, Adam Searle, Finn Arne Jørgensen, Tim R. Hofmeester, René van der Wal. 2023. Wildlife in the Digital Anthropocene: Examining human-animal relations through surveillance technologies. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486211061704

Digital surveillance technologies enable a range of publics to observe the private lives of wild animals. Publics can now encounter wildlife from their smartphones, home computers, and other digital devices. These technologies generate public-wildlife relations that produce digital intimacy, but also summon wildlife into relations of care, commodification, and control. Via three case studies, this paper examines the biopolitic...

Agnes M. Nowaczek, Carolin Seiferth. 2023. Towards exclusively inclusive visitor experience. The Routledge Handbook of Nature Based Tourism Development. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003230748-23

Visitor experience lies at the epicentre of the tourism industry, regardless of the ever-evolving array of tourism niches, destinations, and products. Although tourism literature is quite abundant with theory and practical insights on visitor experience, it tends to isolate differently abled visitors. One of the better examples of holistic travel, sustainable tourism, seems to omit equity and inclusion from its philosophical u...

Erik Zhivkoplias, Agnes Pranindita, Paul Dunshirn, Jean-Baptiste Jouffray, Robert Blasiak. 2023. Novel database reveals growing prominence of deep-sea life for marine bioprospecting. Nature Sustainability/Research Square. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-3136354/v1

Perceptions that marine bioprospecting will deliver vast commercial benefits have placed ‘marine genetic resources’ at the center of key policy processes yet our knowledge about their importance remains limited. Here, we introduce a novel global database of marine gene sequences referenced in patent filings, the MArine Bioprospecting PATent (MABPAT) Database. It includes 25,682 sequences from 1,092 marine species associated wi...

Robert Blasiak, Jean-Baptiste Jouffray, Diva J. Amon, Joachim Claudet, Paul Dunshirn, Peter Søgaard Jørgensen, Agnes Pranindita, Colette C. C. Wabnitz, Erik Zhivkoplias, Henrik Österblom. 2023. Making marine biotechnology work for people and nature. Nature Ecology & Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01976-9

Francesco Marzolla, Przemysław Nowak, Rohit Sahasrabuddhe, Chakresh Singh, Matteo Straccamore, Erik Zhivkoplias, Elsa Arcaute. 2023. Spaces of innovation and venture formation: the case of biotech in the United Kingdom. arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2306.17547

Patents serve as valuable indicators of innovation and provide insights into the spaces of innovation and venture formation within geographic regions. In this study, we utilise patent data to examine the dynamics of innovation and venture formation in the biotech sector across the United Kingdom (UK). By analysing patents, we identify key regions that drive biotech innovation in the UK. Our findings highlight the crucial role ...

Tim M. Daw, Nicole J. Reid, Sarah Coulthard, Tomas Chaigneau, Vilma Machava António, Christopher Cheupe, Geoff Wells, Edgar Bueno. 2023. Life satisfaction in coastal Kenya and Mozambique reflects culture, gendered relationships and security of basic needs: Implications for ecosystem services. Ecosystem Services. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2023.101532

Life satisfaction is both a desirable ‘end’ for sustainable development, and a means to understand the priorities, and behaviour of people towards local ecosystems. Ecosystem-services research on life satisfaction has focused on cultural services in wealthy, Western contexts, although ecosystem services are essential for poor people’s livelihoods in the Global South. We examined reported life satisfaction from a survey of over...

Emmy Wassénius, Anne Charlotte Bunge, Mary K. Scheuermann, Kajsa Resare Sahlin, Agnes Pranindita, Moa Ohlsson, Abigayil Blandon, Chandrakant Singh, Kristin Malmcrona Friberg, Patricia Villarrubia-Gómez. 2023. Creative destruction in academia: a time to reimagine practices in alignment with sustainability values. Sustainability Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-023-01357-6

Academia has experienced acceleration and expansion in parallel with the Great Acceleration, which has shaped the Anthropocene. Among other pressures, the expectation to be internationally mobile conflicts with many values held by sustainability scholars and results in disillusionment. The changes in the academic system can be seen through the framework of the adaptive cycle, which can help us understand historical parallels a...